Brian "bex" Exelbierd: Getting the Asus MB169B+ working on Fedora

I recently got three Asus MB169B+ USB Monitors to help with showing of Fedora and other projects at conferences. I was inspired by Rich Bowen of the CentOS project to do this (and CentOS helped pay for these units).

There are some decent reviews of these online, so I won’t go into too many details. The short version is they are lightweight, easy to pack and work well. They don’t replace a large screen tv/monitor or projector, but they do make it easy to do more than just run laptops. The one draw back is that they require X11 and not Wayland today.

Getting them running on Fedora has been super easy, but had a few “gotchas.”